Music: In the Gracious Presence

The loudest noise in British music last week was 28-year-old Harold
Fielding. He hoped to do for classical music what Henry Ford did for
the automobile. And he aimed to do it with imported U.S. stars. On a
trip to the U.S. early this year Fielding signed up more than $400,000
worth of musical talent for British ears.

Fielding's first importation was Conductor Andre Kostelanetz and wife
Lily Pons. Critics mauled Kostelanetz's opening program of classical
bromides and filigree jazz. Said the Daily Mail: "The minuet [third
movement of Beethoven's First Symphony] was turned into a gallop and
the finale beat all...